*** SORRY THIS PLUGIN NO LONGER WORKS SINCE TWITTER STARTED USING OAUTH ***
My apologies!​

Twitter Thumbs is a sidebar widget that shows your sites Twitter follower count and followers thumbnails ( or people you follow) tweets. The thumbnail grid looks just like the one on Twitter pages (see example pic )

Instructions
1. Upload the "twitter_thumbs" folder to your plugins folder. Install it from Plugin Management in Admin.
2. Go to the Twitter Thumbs settings and enter your Twitter username and password.
3. Turn widget on in the main "widget" plugin settings panel in admin.
4. You can set up this widget to display your followers or people you follow by editing twitter_thumbs.php,.

This widget utilizes Hotaru's smartCache feature to get around Twitters 150/hr API call limit (Thanks Nick!). It will only update every 10 minutes or when a new story is posted this is why the Submit plugin is needed.

If your site is in debug mode you can see how many hits you have left that hour before you get to the 150/hr limit to make sure the caching is working correctly.

This is a variation of Twitter Widget using twitterlibphp (but looks much cooler IMO).
Future plans: Integrate this with Twitter Widget and let the admin select which one to use in the settings page along with how many followers to show etc.

To change the number of followers/friends to show (100 max) open twitter_thumbs.php line 115 -
if($i < 97){ //show up to 100 friends

To show friends you follow instead of followers (keeps spammers from showing up) twitter_thumbs.php line 99
$friends = $twitter->getFollowers(); to getFriends

Revision History
v.0.2 2010/05/27 - Nick - Added options for cache duration and number of follower avatars to display.
v.0.1 2010/03/02 - JonH - Released first version